Bella took great interest in looking for the letters in the book, much pleased to find that she knew them wherever she saw them.
Her mother, too, learned _a_ and _b_ very effectually by this examination of Bella's work.

Mary Erskine selected the two best letters which Bella had made, one of each kind, and rubbed out all the rest with a cloth.

She then put up the board in a conspicuous place upon a shelf, where the two good letters could be seen by all in the room.

Bella was much pleased at this, and she came in from her play several times in the course of the day, to look at her letters and to call them by name.
When Bella's board had thus been put up in its conspicuous position, Mary Bell sat down to finish her drawing, while Bella went out to pick up her two baskets of chips.

Mary Bell worked upon her house for nearly the whole of another half hour.